When businesses and organizations started reducing hours and services in response to the COVID-19 situation, I like many of you started questioning. Will the...

This past week, I came to talk to a group of high school students with disabilities about Social Security, Medicaid,and Medicare Work Incentives and how the ...

My son occasionally prefaces disclosures with: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?” His dad and I usually choose the bad new...

In initial episode of Netflix’s new series, AJ and the Queen, Rupaul’s character, Robert (stage name “Ruby Red”) becomes a victim of his own success. In the ...

When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to play checkers. He liked the game and was quite good at it. For variety, he also taught me a variation called ...

Does anyone play the game Jenga™ at home? Once the internet time has run out, it’s a favorite with my son, who enjoys a dexterity challenge and loud crashing...

In this classic Sesame Street skit, Bert’s favorite program, The Wonderful World of Pigeons, has been replaced by a large capital “H” which flashes off and o...

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the heroine asks “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Tragically, the ...

The Wall Street Journal ran a charming article on the rise of the use of Scottish dialect on Twitter. For those of you with a subscription, here is the link...

It snowed the day before Halloween, where I live. The day after, CVS and Walgreens had their Santa displays already up. Last week, I heard an ad for a furn...

Now that he has navigated Halloween successfully—his costume received lots of complements and he picked up enough candy to hold him until Easter--my son has ...

The animated show Captain Underpants (created by cartoonist Dav Pilkey) aired a Halloween episode earlier this week. For those of you who don’t spend much t...

My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of Halloween cheer, had...

My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a last-minute change of time to...

The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of my upcoming workshops...

By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be super-attractive. Ce...

In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain gamer-generated memes t...

My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she probably does most of ...

My family and I are currently enjoying The Inbestigators (indicating the best investigators) as our evening escapism. The Australian TV series features fou...

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We drove. (This, by the way, accounts for the missed blog last week and the delayed...